The San Francisco–based musical agitators blend an alternative pop attitude with international spices, mixing in elements of Gypsy swing, Colombian cumbia, French chanson, and Indian ragas. Featured Artist(s):
Rupa and the April Fishes

Led by the soulful Arnold, whose scratch in his singing makes him stand out among singer songwriters, draws on blues, gospel, folk, and rock, as heard on the August 2010 release Simplify. Featured Artist(s):
Ben Arnold Band

Malian vocalist Khaira Arby shifts seamlessly between the edgy and progressive and the traditional, turning to her mixed Berber and Sonrhai roots. She blends electric guitar with the forefather of the banjo and drum breaks with the traditional percussion of the scraper and the calabash. Featured Artist(s):
Khaïra Arby

In celebration of the D.C. Youth Orchestra’s 50th anniversary, Marvin Hamlisch, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, conducts a program featuring some of the program’s 50,000 alumni from around the country. IN THE CONCERT HALLFeatured Artist(s):
DC Youth Orchestra

The pianist and professor of music at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory has performed with such legendary artists as Clark Terry, Zoot Simms, Herbie Hancock, Shirley Horn, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, and others. Featured Artist(s):
Charles Covington Jr.

The ensemble was named Best Folk Song Choir at the 2010 Trinidad and Tobago National Music Festival. Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago.Featured Artist(s):
New Dimension Performing Arts Company

A showcase of up-and-coming youth talent as part of Washington Performing Arts Society's Summer Performing Arts Academy. Led by members of Step Afrika!, the young performers will explore the traditions of stepping and other percussive dance styles. Featured Artist(s):
Step Afrika!

Voice of America presents Sierra Leone Theatre’s production of True Friendship, a play about Sidique, who is sentenced to die in two days. Only the son of the man he tried to harm—his best friend Abu—can save Sidique…by giving up his own life in the place of Sidique’s. Featured Artist(s):
Sierra Leone Theatre

Members from the cast of the national tour of Mary Poppins strut their high-belting, energized, tap dancing stuff in an evening of song, led by Jacob ben Widmar with pianist William Johnson. Featured Artist(s):
Jacob ben Widmar

Latin jazz trombonist and historian Christopher Washburne plays with renowned percussionist and Apollo Theater house band member Candido Camero. Sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in association with its exhibition, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment.”Featured Artist(s):
Candido Camero

In sing-alongs, bang-alongs, and improvised songs, the tenor/percussionist/guitarist uses the audience as his primary instrument, as well as plays on fanciful "industrial re-percussion" instruments made from found objects. Featured Artist(s):
Billy Jonas

The DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center and the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs present an ensemble of Department of State visiting classical musicians in an evening of chamber music. Featured Artist(s):
Classical Ambassadors

Dubbed the “Celtic guitar god,” Robin Bullock blends the ancient melodies of the Celtic people and their Appalachian descendants into one powerful musical vision with his virtuosity on guitar, cittern, and mandolin. Featured Artist(s):
Robin Bullock

Travel through a year on the road with four cast members of the national tour of Mary Poppins—Q. Smith, Ellen Harvey, Geoffrey Goldberg, and Tom Souhrada—in this comic and touching evening of song and narrative. Featured Artist(s):
Geoffrey Goldberg